Too much preview text, when sharing on facebook.

that’s messed up but i hope someone here knows how to fix this.

Does that happen even if you use the ‘More’ break in your post? For some themes this has helped me limit the amount of text shown, but admittedly I have never posted to FB this way

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I get the ‘more’ sometimes, but when you click it, the text expands, and you don’t have to go the to the web page at all. You can read the whole article from facebook, that way my traffic has droped :/

How are you sharing? Are you using a plugin? Or are you using code from the facebook developers website?

I’m using the ‘Simple Facebook Connect’ plugin, so I can share the posts manualy from the WP Admin Panel right after I publish the articles.

K… one sec while I look at the plugin.

FYI, I’m not too familiar with Facebook (I think it’s evil), so don’t expect great results from me ??

I would imagine there would be a way to set the character limit when sharing a post or page.

EDIT: I noticed more than half of the people who voted are experiencing some type of issue with the plugin. Have you tried using a different plugin?

Here’s the fix:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-simple-facebook-connect-the-post-length-on-facebook?replies=23

Just add this code before the ending ?> tag.. In the theme “Theme Functions (functions.php)”

Meaning that your functions.php file will end like this:

add_filter('sfc_excerpt_length','my_custom_length');
function my_custom_length($num) { return 270; }
?>

The text on the sher is not the updating text of my site , i want the pdatee page text to be shown on the sher